#haha lobcorp mention

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the king, aka Aleph Waw He Teth Zayin

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It depends on your requirements to be 'haunting the narrative' but 9 times out of 10 it's probably Carmen.

(Spoilers for like. the entirety of PM's universe and Danganronpa's whole series)

Carmen and Junko are both incredibly important to their respective series; Both have caused awful cataclysmic events that have changed the very core of their worlds, largely in part thanks to the systems in place. However, Junko needs people to carry on her legacy for her- the moment people forget about her, she dies with them. Carmen, on the other side, has practically been made into a god- one that does not need the memory of the world to show up, she just needs someone to be distraught enough.

Junko Enoshima died at the end of DR1, however she was still alive in Danganronpa: Despair Side. She was still alive in the novels. She's alive in a good chunk of the media. I'm not counting the 50 other games that DRV3 gives us; they're fictional, but they do give Junko a few points for her pure staying power; how deeply she's made herself an icon of despair and suffering. I don't know all of Danganronpa's media, but here is the ones I remember:

Danganronpa 1: Alive- Mastermind of killing game and the Tragedy, dies at very end of game for fun. Junko is the one who sets the games into motion.

Danganronpa 2: Dead- Shows up as an AI made to corrupt the thing trying to save her old subordinates from their old deranged ways.

Danganronpa UGS: Dead- She causes the rise of Monaca, as well as being the reason the world is the way it is. Also the AI from DR2 is split into 2 'kumas here.

Danganronpa V3: Dead?- V3 is odd to talk about due to its ending and how it makes it so Junko was fictional(I do personally think the ending is fine, it's full of questions that I find quite fascinating. Could it have been handled better? Absolutely, I think there's other things that handle those questions of the 'end of media' and 'pointing out the obvious but unconsidered' much better.)- though divulging in the purely fictional she's been used as a villian around 53 times.

Danganronpa Despair Side: Alive- Yeah.

I know there's at least one other where she's alive and is the amnesiac main character, but I can't remember its name.

Carmen technically died before the events of LC- depends on whether or not you consider her as 'alive' when she's a brain in a well, though everyone in character considers her dead after that point, so I will as well. She is dead in all media, and yet she has appeared without fail in the webcomics, webnovels and videogames to chat with the main protagonists. No one knows her name outside of those who knew what happened to her, and all of those people had been ousted far out into the Outskirts. I haven't read Distortion Detective, so I'm not including it outside of 'haha yeah. she really does cause that distortion huh.'

Lobotomy Corporation: The mother of all abnormalities, the reason Ayin had built the corporation, who Angela is a copy of, etc, etc. Carmen is the one who sets the games into motion.

Wonderlab: The characters work at a place inadvertently created by Carmen, and Party Everlasting is caused by her directly.

Library of Ruina: Distortions, also just about everything from LobCorp, did I mention Distortions?

Leviathan: Has a conversation with Vergillius to try and make him distort, ultimately fails.

Limbus Company: Kromer's phase 2 song is incredibly about her, not to mention the theory that she narrates the stories for the identities and likely is going to come and fuck even more shit up like she usually does- she's already causing an entire event.

The main reason I say 'it depends' is because haunting the narrative either implies literal haunting like Carmen or their legacy being so ingrained that even after being completely gone(no ghost or spirit) they are still causing new events to happen, like Junko. However, Carmen's been dead in all media so she gets added points from me.